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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [paː.bʊˈɫaː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [pa.buˈlat.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

pābulātiō f (genitive pābulātiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin pābulor (“to graze; to forage”) + -tiō.[2][3][1] pābulor comes from pābulum (“fodder”), which de Vaan derives with pāscō (“to feed, pasture”) from Proto-Italic *pāþlo- and Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlo-, from the root Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“to protect, herd”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Varro,[4][5] who uses it of feeding ground for bees, warning against places without suitable pasture.[2][6]

Semantic evolution

In farming it means pasture or feeding ground, as in Varro and Columella.[2][6] In military language it is the collecting of fodder, foraging: Caesar writes of keeping the enemy from plundering, foraging and laying waste, of an enemy who watched all the Roman foraging and corn-fetching parties, and of troops pressed for fodder or cut off from it.[2][6] The TLL notes that it is military in all its uses except in Solinus.[3]

Timeline

  • 116–27 BC – Varro of pasture for bees.[2][5]
  • c. 50 BC – Caesar of foraging parties.[2][6]
  • 1st century AD – Columella of pasture.[6]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The collecting of fodder, foraging.[2][6][1]
  2. Feeding ground, pasture (also for bees).[2][6][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press